Although this is the first large-scale analysis of the fertiliy potential in women with the FSHR SNPs analyzed, the information on reproductive events (mainly fertility potential as defined by the number of reported pregnancies) extracted from the large database of hispanic women also should be taken with caution as the questionaire applied was designed to obtain information on several metabolic aspects related to T2D, rather than on reproductive events and parameters that may influence, directly or indirectly, on the reproductive potential of the population studied. The gene discussed is FSHR; the disease is type 2 diabetes mellitus.